A new weighted balance measure helped to select the variables to be included in a propensity score model

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 68, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1415-1422.e2

  Caruana, Emmanuel ^a   Chevret, Sylvie ^a   Resche Rigon, Matthieu ^a   Pirracchio, Romain ^a,b  

^a SAINT LOUIS HOSPITAL   (France)

^b HÔPITAL EUROPÉEN GEORGES POMPIDOU   (France)

Author keywords

Balance; Causal inference; Instrumental variables; Propensity score; Propensity score matching; Standardized mean difference

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; ARTICLE; ATTRIBUTABLE RISK; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLE ANALYSIS; INTENSIVE CARE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPENSITY SCORE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ACUTE DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRANCE; HEART FAILURE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; STATISTICAL BIAS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THROMBOCYTE VOLUME;

ARGATROBAN; PIPECOLIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ACUTE DISEASE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COHORT STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTINUOUS POSITIVE AIRWAY PRESSURE; DATA COLLECTION; FRANCE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MEAN PLATELET VOLUME; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OBSERVATIONAL STUDIES AS TOPIC; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PIPECOLIC ACIDS; PROPENSITY SCORE;

EID: 84948715488     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2015.04.009     Document Type: Article

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